It’s the final table of the Battle of Malta Main Event Autumn Edition and after 5,790 eliminations, just nine players remain. It’s November and there are nine of them left, it would be rude not call them the November Nine. The WSOP abandoned the concept that created the original November Nine name, which was to…
Play has now begun on the final table. Before play started, the players all agreed to an adjusted prize pool, which was proposed by the tournament director after feedback at the end of Tuesday’s play in the Main Event. This is what they are now playing for: Position Prize 1 €255,800 2 €160,800 3 €115,800…
The nine remaining players have now returned to Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel and they are currently opening their chip bags and preparing to commence play. Today we have a live stream of the final table, commentary hosted by Jason Glatzer, with guests. Its being broadcast on a 30-minute delay…
The fourth day of the record breaking Battle of Malta Main Event Autumn Edition began with 36 hopefuls still in the hunt for a seat on the final table of nine players. It was a long day for both players and staff at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel, although it…
The final elimination of the day has just been delivered. Arcodia and Zisis got it all in on a flop of . Arcodia held to Zisis . The on the turn changed nothing, but when the fell on the river, it was celebration time for Zisis and commiseration time for Arcodia. Play has now been…
Play is now resuming in the main event and stacks of the remaining players have been counted and verified. These are the chip counts of the final ten. Position Player Name Country Chips Big Blinds 1 Vasileios Zisis Greek 38,300,000 64 2 Alessandro Siena Italian 36,275,000 60 3 Shervin Ghassemlou English 28,650,000 48 4 Kyriakos…
Level 38: 300,000/600,000 (600,000) Entries: 10/5,799 Apologies for the lack of updates. Recently things have been moving quite slowly in the Main Event. There have been a few all-ins recently, but in all cases, the short stack has either doubled up or split the pot. In other news has recently been confirmed that we will…
Level 37: 250,000/500,000 (500,000) Entries: 10/5,799 Soon after Blokdijk was taken out on the feature table, another all-in took place on the other table. In this hand, Greek Panagiotis Petrou lost out to Alessandro Siena. We didn’t catch the entire hand, but his was not good enough to beat Siena’a on a board. Alessandro Siena…
Level 37: 250,000/500,000 (500,000) Entries: 11/5,799 Another player has now hit the rail. Daniel Mendoza moved all-in for his remaining 4..85m with . Zisis made the call with and it was all over for the Venezuelan wen the biard ran out . He leaves with €8,080 for his marathon effort to claim his first ever…
Level 36: 200,000/400,000 (400,000) Entries: 12/5,799 In the last hand before the break Hendrik Blokdijk pushed all-in for his remaining 4.5m with versus of Pasquale Gregorio, who was still steaming from having the clock called on him in the previous hand with Zisis. It was all over for Hendrik when the board ran out .…